Though it comes in the lines from an earlier translation that reviewer Kelly Grovier is denigrating, I really like "the too severe delight of earnest thought."
And Grovier has a literary biography of Newgate coming out this summer! What a great idea!
I have published four novels and two academic books; forthcoming in 2014 is "Reading Style: A Life in Sentences." I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
That's a fascinating story.
ReplyDeleteThough it comes in the lines from an earlier translation that reviewer Kelly Grovier is denigrating, I really like "the too severe delight of earnest thought."
And Grovier has a literary biography of Newgate coming out this summer! What a great idea!